New Year's Cookies

Laying in bed last night... Looking through Pinterest... (DANGEROUS!)

I had no intention of decorating cookies today... Don't really know what I had planned for today... *sigh  Anyways... There I was, looking through Pinterest, and saw some New Year's cookies & thought, "I could do that!" and here I am... Cookies all decorated and drying & I'm collapsed back on the couch. :)

I started with these colours & then added a pink into the mix:

I still have plans to paint the little yellow balls gold... But you never know where time will take you. :)

I hope you have a happy & blessed 2015.

In 2015, BE AWESOME!!

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Root Beer Cutout Cookies w/optional Root Beer Glaze

This morning I took my root beer cookies to church for the coffee kiosk.

I had made some Root Beer Float Cupcakes (http://sugarkissed.net/root-beer-float-cupcakes/) this weekend for our bday celebration tomorrow night in class and had some leftover glaze. I had made only half the glaze & left out the torturous butter (totally not needed).

(Right now as I write this, my little baking helper is demanding my hands.

She'd draped across my chest pushing my hands off my phone. Well, at least she stopped licking my face & I can see again!)

There are a few basic sugar cookie recipes I've been using lately & just adding different flavours to them with great results (Spiced Apple Cider being one of them http://the-metamorphosis-of-me.blogspot.ca/2014/11/spiced-apple-cider-cutout-cookies.html?m=1). This root beer recipe is no exception. 

I took this basic sugar cookie recipe: http://www.inkatrinaskitchen.com/2011/12/best-sugar-cookie-recipe-and-kitchenaid_28.html and instead of using the flavourings they suggested, I added the same amount of root beer flavouring: 1.5 tsp. I baked my 1/4" cookies at 350F for 12-15 minutes and Voilá, root beer cookies. 

Last night, while finishing up the cupcakes, I looked at all the extra glaze, looked at my cookies, grabbed a large square paintbrush (I get mine at the dollar store & never use them for anything but icing), and painted on a layer of yummy glaze.  Because they were going to the church today, I grabbed a clean coffee filter and dumped in my sprinkles and then put half the cookie into the sprinkles. I wanted them to be a bit Christmasy. :)

I left them out overnight & the glaze hardened enough for me to transport them this morning. :)

If you try this version of a basic sugar cookie, please let me know how you enjoyed it. If you experiment with other flavourings, I'd love to hear how they turn out: both good & bad. 

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